The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 103
So you see, as you have freed me to-day, choose in what way you will die."
Who acts: you · What happens: see, free, choose, die · To what, where: you, way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 see | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 freed | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 freed | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 freed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 freed | aux |
| 8 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 see | ccomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 freed | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 day | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 to | punct |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 freed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 choose | punct |
| 14 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 see | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 what | case |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 choose | obl |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 die | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 die | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 die | aux |
| 20 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | free | present · perfect · passive | you | day | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | choose | infinitive | you not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | die | future | you | way | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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